Domestic Disturbances

The Rising Polyamorous Culture Is Out to Get Your Children

by Patrick F. Fagan

The culture of the traditional family is now in intense competition with
a very different culture. The defining difference between the two is the sexual
ideal each embraces. The traditional family of Western civilization is based
on lifelong monogamy. The competing culture is “polyamorous,” normally
a serial polygamy, but also increasingly polymorphous in its different sexual
expressions.

I hope there is elegance in the simple distinction between the ideals that
distinguish the two cultures: monogamy and polymorphous serial polygamy, or “polyamory” for
short.

Between these two cultures
. . .

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